The Cross in Our Bodies

This is a pretty neat true story and 
an interesting thing that few of us 
know. It's brief, so please read. 
(FROM A DOCTOR) 
  

 
    

A couple of days ago I was running (I use 

that term very loosely) on my treadmill, 

watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio. 

And I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share 

what I learned.... 

He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably 

BIG our God is... How He spoke the universe 

into being.. How He breathes stars out of His 

mouth that are huge raging balls of fire.. Etc. 

Etc. Then He went on to speak of how this 

star-breathing, universe creating God ALSO 

knitted our human bodies together with amazing 

detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING 

it (fascinating from a medical standpoint, you 

know.) .. And I was remembering how I was 

constantly amazed during medical school as I 

learned more and more about God's handiwork. 

I remember so many times thinking..'How can 

ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this?'

Louie went on to talk about how we can trust 

that the God who created all this, also has the 

power to hold it all together when things seem 

to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is 

also our sustain-er. 

    

And then I lost my breath. And it wasn't 

because I was running my treadmill, either! 

    

It was because he started talking about laminin. 

I knew about laminin.. Here is how 

Wikipedia describes them: 'Laminins 

are a family of proteins that are an integral 

part of the structural scaffolding of 

basement membranes in almost every 

animal tissue' You see.... Laminins are 

what hold us together... LITERALLY. 

They are cell adhesion molecules. 

They are what holds one cell of our 

bodies to the next cell. Without them, 

we would literally fall apart. And I knew 

all this already. But what I didn't know 

is what they LOOKED LIKE..

    

But now I do. And I have thought about it 

a thousand times since (already)....Here is 

what the structure of laminin looks like... 

AND THIS IS NOT a 'Christian portrayal' 

of it.... If you look up laminin in any 

scientific/medical piece of literature, 

this is what you will see....

   

   

Now tell me that our God is not the coolest! Amazing.  

The glue that holds us together.... ALL of us..... Is in 

the shape of the cross. Immediately Colossians 

1:15-17 comes to mind. 

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over 

all creation. All things were created by him and for him. 

He is before all things, and in him All things  

HOLD TOGETHER.' Colossians 1:15-17

Call me crazy. I just think that is very, very, very cool. 

Thousands of years before the world knew anything 

about laminin, Paul penned those words. And now we 

see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are 

held together... One cell to another... By the cross. 

   

    

You would never in a quadrillion years convince 

me that this is anything other than the mark of 

a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin 

'glue' would look like long before Adam 

breathed his first breath! 

   

What I found when I googled laminin! 

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More Historical Photos - Part 1

Some Photos Collected From History

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A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

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Albert Einstein looking fabulous

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Albert Einstein's Diploma

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Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880

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A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World 

War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

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Disney brothers, Roy O. and Walt Disney, 

wives and mom when they opened the studio

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Microsoft Staff Photo 1978

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The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed 

in 1933. The species is now extinct

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A different angle taken of "Tank Man", the 

man who stood against a line of tanks in 

Tiananmen Square. He is standing in the 

street between the tree trunk and the 

fleeing man. You can see the tanks 

approaching from the right

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Winston Churchill out for a swim

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The London sky following a bombing and 

dogfight between British and German
planes in 1940

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Google starts up!

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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic 

bombing in 1945

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A Native American overlooking the newly 

completed transcontinental railroad in 1868

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The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake 

 of 1906

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A Japanese plane is shot down during 

the Battle of Saipan in 1944

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The original Ronald McDonald; played 

by Willard Scott

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Hitler in Paris

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Grounded aircraft on September 11, 

2001 await orders

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British SAS back from a three month long 

patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943

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Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961

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Awesome Friends!

COMPANIONSHIP... 

THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

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 Look carefully at each picture for the cat, as it makes its way

down from the roof to the dog. Then check the explanation at the end.

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The story behind those pictures is this:

Every day - at the same time - 

she waits for him.

Sometimes she barks to call him.

He comes; they rub and greet each other

and they go for a walk. They have done

this for 5 years and no, they don’t belong to the

same owners. The owners didn’t know until

neighbors seeing them together so frequently

commented to the cat’s owner, who then followed

the dog home which was a distance away - not

in a house close or next door. How it started no

one knows.

Wouldn’t it be great to have friends like this - always

There are no words needed, they just intuitively

recognize the value of each other in their lives

and act accordingly.

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